Warning: skipping message as it has been attempted too many times

[Jerry Benton]

I would suggest taking a look at how permissions are done on MailScanner v5.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Meelhuysen <mark at meelhuysen.com>
Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Date: July 27, 2016 at 2:57:32 AM
To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject:  RE: Warning: skipping message as it has been attempted too many times

> Indeed, the directory failed to be created again last night.
> The owner of the quarantinedirectory is root with group apache.
> The owner of all subdirs is postfix with group apache. Security is 770.
> MailScanner.conf settings:
> Run As User = postfix
> Run As Group = postfix
> Is it ok then that the dirs. Have group apache?
> Is there some logging where the error is logged when the system was not able to create the
> quarantine directory?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Mark
>
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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces+mark=meelhuysen.com at lists.mailscanner.info]
> Namens Mark Sapiro
> Verzonden: woensdag 27 juli 2016 00:35
> Aan: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Onderwerp: Re: Warning: skipping message as it has been attempted too many times
>
> On 07/26/2016 01:36 PM, Mark Meelhuysen wrote:
> >
> > @ Antony, it appeared that the "20160726" folder was not there. I wonder why i did not
> think of checking that.
> > After creating it with the correct permissions the queue was processed. I wonder if
> the problem will repeat this night as I could not find any errors about the system not being
> able to create the directory.
> > Any thoughts?
>
>
> The problem probably will recur. Mailscanner creates the yyyymmdd directories each
> day, but for some reason wasn't able to last night and probably won't be able to tonight
> for the same reason.
>
> Normally, the directory and subordinates are created/written by MailScanner's 'Run
> As User' which needs read, write and search permission on /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/.
> This will be the user that owns the /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/* directories.
> If it has permission, it could be a SELinux issue.
>
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